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Foreign Tournament Report

Wed, 14/12/2011 - 19:30 — Tony Atkins

SportAccord World Mind Games

Beijing

9 December 2011 - 14 December 2011

China were unbeaten in all five matches to win the team event at the first SportAccord
World Mind Games in Beijing. They beat Europe, Taiwan and finally the US 5-0; in round 2 they
had beaten Korea 3-2 and in round 4 had beaten Japan 4-1. Second place went to Korea who
only lost to China and beat Japan in the last round 4-1. This made Japan take the third place.
Fourth was Chinese Taipei on two wins, fifth was USA and sixth Europe. Both USA and Europe
only won games against each other, the result being 3-2 to USA in round 3. The UK's Vanessa Wong was playing for Europe on board 5 and next would be playing in the Pair Go event with
Catalin Taranu.

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Tue, 22/11/2011 - 13:27 — Tony Atkins

University College Cork

University College Cork

19 November 2011 - 20 November 2011

23 players graced Cork with their presence this year. The tournament
took place in the rather beautiful main campus of University College
Cork. Top of the bunch was Kim Ouweleen, 3d, from Amsterdam, with a perfect
5/5. In second place was Ian Davis, 1d, who edged out Spain's Matei Garcia, 4k, on
tiebreak, despite his 5/5 score. Also scoring 5/5 was Thomas Shanahan, 15k, from
Galway.

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Sun, 20/11/2011 - 17:32 — Tony Atkins

International Amateur Pair Go Championship

Tokyo

19 November 2011 - 20 November 2011

The British Pair of Alison and Simon Bexfield topped the group on 2 wins to come 17th
in the 22nd IAPGC. They beat pairs from Philippines and Spain, but lost to Korea and two Japanese pairs. For the 6th time in a row Korea won, with Chinese Taipei in second this time.
The top European pairs were Hungary in 9th and Czechia in 12th, both with 3 wins.

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Thu, 17/11/2011 - 12:39 — Jon Diamond

Pandanet Go European Team Championship

Pandanet

15 November 2011

Matthew Macfadyen had lost to Dusan Mitic, one of the undefeated Mitic brothers, by resignation the previous Wednesday, so we knew that we were up against it - the team we were able to put out against the Serbians was nominally slightly weaker than our opponents.

Despite some Serbian confusion as to the start time, sadly Nikola remained undefeated also, edging Bei Ge by just 0.5 points! So we were saved by Des Cann and Jon Diamond’s close victories on boards 3 and 4. (Jon was especially lucky having 'lost' the game several times, finally living with an L group and then killing one of the surrounding groups!)

Phew - the closest result in the round, perhaps the closest ever?

We're still near the bottom of the table, but a win in our next round could lift us to 3rd place as only two teams have won more than one match.

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Thu, 27/10/2011 - 22:21 — Tony Atkins

Korea Prime Minister Cup

Pohang, Korea

22 October 2011 - 23 October 2011

Andrew Kay, representing the UK, placed 22nd in the 6th KPMC in Pohang Korea.
He beat Morocco, Slovenia and Hong Kong, but lost to France, Canada and Thailand
to win 3/6. Also winning 3/6 below the dan-bar was Ireland's Rory Wales in 49th place.

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Tue, 27/09/2011 - 22:36 — Tony Atkins

Pandanet Go European Team Championship

Pandanet

4 October 2011

The British team lost their first match in the new season of the.
Pandanet Go European Team Championship. Their B-League
fixture against Belgium ended as a 3-1 defeat. The team of Bei Ge,
Des Cann, Alex Selby and Andrew Simons battled hard, but only won
on board 4.

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Sun, 28/08/2011 - 19:18 — Tony Atkins

Sport Accord Mind Games Qualifier

Prague

26 August 2011 - 28 August 2011

Vanessa Wong beat Svetlana Shikshina in the last round of the Sport Accord Qualifier
in Prague to get the women's place on the European Union team for Beijing in December.
She will play Pair Go with Catalin Taranu. The other team members will be Cornel Burzo,
Christian Pop and Ilya Shikshin.

Vanessa won three games in all including a win over Matthew Macfadyen who ended
on two wins.

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Sat, 06/08/2011 - 16:00 — Tony Atkins

European Go Congress

Bordeaux

23 July 2011 - 6 August 2011

Russian 7 dan Ilya Shikshin retained the European Championship by beating
Catalin Taranu in the final. This year the top 8 placed Europeans played
knockout after round 7 which gave to an exciting final on the last day.
Winning the play-off for third was Ukraine's Artem Kachanovskyi, who
beat Alexandr Dinerchtein. Top British player was Vanessa Wong who
won seven games to place 22nd, including beating Israeli 6 dan Ali
Jabarin in the last round. Michael Webster (1 kyu) and Patrick Ridley (10 kyu)
both won 6 games out of 10. Korea's Young-Sam Kim was the Open champion.
757 players took part.

Sang-Youn Jeon, 7 dan Korea, won the 435-player weekend tournament.
Rita Pocsai / Jan Simara
won the Pair Go and Russia won the finals of the Pandanet European Team Go Championships.

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Fri, 03/06/2011 - 12:15 — Tony Atkins

European Pair Go Championships

Istanbul

28 May 2011 - 29 May 2011

Natasha Regan and Matthew Cocke took 11th place (the 9th best country) at the European Pair Go Championship
in Istanbul, Turkey. They lost to Czechia, France and Germany, but beat Poland and two
pairs from Turkey. Best of the 31 pairs taking part was the pair from Hungary, Rita Pocsai
and Pal Balogh. Czechia was second and Ukraine third.

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Wed, 01/06/2011 - 09:08 — Tony Atkins

World Amateur Go Championship

Shimane, Japan

29 May 2011 - 1 June 2011

The UK representative at the 32nd WAGC was Alex Selby from Cambridge. He won 3 games to take 43rd place. His first game was a loss to former World Champion Hirata of Japan. He then lost to Nechanicky of Czechia and Trippel of Switzerland, before beating Neville Smythe of Australia. He then lost to Minieri of Italy, beat the player from Azerbaijan, lost to Pedersen of Denmark and won the last game against Mexico. James Hutchinson of Ireland was 36th with 4 wins against Denmark, Argentina, Portugal and Brazil. The unbeaten Champion was Bai of China.
Second was Choi of Korea. The group on 6 wins were Eric Lui (USA), Thomas Debarre (France),
Hirata (Japan), Jun Fan (Canada) and Franz-Josef Dickhut (Germany). 57 countries took part at the Shimane prefectural hall in Matsue, a ancient castle town in the west of Japan.